Revision as of 21:00, 31 March 2010

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1 Introduction

Source code is often packed for download as a TAR (Tape ARchive) file, that is a standard format in the Unix/Linux world. These files have a .tar extension; they can also be compressed, the extension is .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 in these cases. There are several ways to unpack these files.

2 tar

If you have MinGW/MSYS or Cygwin installed, you can use the tar command to unpack such files: